An Air India flight crashed into a medical college hostel in Ahmedabad’s Meghani Nagar soon after taking off on Thursday afternoon.
Smoke emitting for the site where the plane crashed.
The plane lost power as it reached a height of around 625 feet, and the aircraft started going down.
It was at this time that the pilot Captain Sumeet Sabharwal and co-pilot First Officer Clive Kundar issued the Mayday call.
Captain Sumeet Sabharwal is a Line Training Captain (LTC) with 8200 hours of experience, and the copilot had 1100 hours of flying experience.
The aircraft involved in the Air India AI171 crash was a Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner with registration number VT-ANB and serial number 36279.
Huge crowds assembled at the spot where the Air India flight crashed.
The injured passengers were rushed to the Ahmedabad civil hospital
The plane crashed onto the BJ Medical college UG hostel mess.
The Ahmedabad airport cancelled flights post the crash before resuming limited flights in the evening.
Photographs curated by Manisha Kotian/ Rediff
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